{"id":35515,"date":"2025-07-04T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35515"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:38:15","slug":"happy-136th-birthday-fn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35515","title":{"rendered":"Happy 136th Birthday, FN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:462,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/fnamerica.com\\\/about-fn&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303142934\\\/https:\\\/\\\/fnamerica.com\\\/about-fn\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 04:27:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 19:11:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 19:11:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Fabrique Nationale d\u2019Armes de Guerre was formed on July 3, 1889 to make military rifles for the Belgian government. Formed in Herstel, Belgium, their first rifle was the Model 1889 Mauser.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/710dc6cc-15af-41c3-83ae-403368a3a4c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/710dc6cc-15af-41c3-83ae-403368a3a4c8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/710dc6cc-15af-41c3-83ae-403368a3a4c8-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/710dc6cc-15af-41c3-83ae-403368a3a4c8-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The rifle was chambered in 7.65&#215;53. It was not until New Year&#8217;s Eve in 1891 that the first of 150,000 of these rifles were delivered to the Belgian Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fnamerica.com\/about-fn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to their history<\/a><\/strong>, the company diversified into making ammunition and later bicycles to get them through slow times. It was this last endeavor that led to a fortuitous partnership with none other than John Moses Browning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In<strong>\u00a01897<\/strong>, FN sales manager Hart O. Berg traveled to America to learn about bicycle technology developments. While in Hartford, Connecticut, he ran into a past coworker, one John Moses Browning, who was still working with Colt, and wanted help manufacturing a new self-loading pistol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, a fortuitous partnership without which we would not have such classics as the Auto-5 shotgun, the Model 1900 semi-auto pistol, and the Browning Hi-Power as perfected by Browning&#8217;s protege Dieudonn\u00e9 Saive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrique Nationale d\u2019Armes de Guerre was formed on July 3, 1889 to make military rifles for the Belgian government.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7175,7101,2738],"class_list":["post-35515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-belgium","tag-fabrique-nationale","tag-john-moses-browning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35517,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515\/revisions\/35517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}